History and compares

Back on the latest configurations page, select havipori.sainath.com in the left-hand side pane, and then go to Actions | Refresh. Enterprise Manager reports that the Target collection has succeeded and the refreshed configuration data is displayed. This is how you would manually refresh the configuration if you wanted to be sure that the information stored in the Enterprise Manager repository was up-to-date.

Now go to Actions | History. We want to see which operating system property has changed in the current state of the host.

Click on the Clear button next to Configuration Item, and then click on the magnifying glass icon and select Operating System Properties (from the Type of Change drop-down menu) to be used in the search. Then click on the Search button.

The results that come up, as shown in the following screenshot, tell us that one of the important operating system properties has changed recently—this is fs.file-max, and the exact change is also shown:

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